Package: gnome-terminal Version: 2.12.0-2 Severity: normal Gnome terminal has many good attributes, like a nice looking font so thank you for all your packaging efforts. However speed of display is a bit lacking. Other reports mention CPU usage, I actually found that to not be a problem.
The following test illustrates the problem rather well I think: /usr/bin/time zcat /var/log/syslog.[12345].gz (N.B. not time the bash builtin) on xterm: 0.04user 0.06system 0:04.08elapsed 2%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k 0inputs+0outputs (0major+183minor)pagefaults 0swaps on gnome-terminal: 0.05user 0.10system 0:19.68elapsed 0%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k 0inputs+0outputs (0major+184minor)pagefaults 0swaps /usr/bin/time zcat /var/log/syslog.[12345].gz >/dev/null on xterm: 0.03user 0.00system 0:00.03elapsed 94%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k 0inputs+0outputs (0major+183minor)pagefaults 0swaps on gnome-terminal: 0.03user 0.00system 0:00.03elapsed 100%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k 0inputs+0outputs (0major+183minor)pagefaults 0swaps So gnome-terminal with STDOUT redirected is as fast as xterm, with STDOUT to the normal place, gnome-terminal is nearly 5 times slower. Obviously for the test to be meaningful, one needs syslog.[12345].gz to exist and to have permission to read them. I suspect this result explains why tar xvf is so *much* slower than tar xf as well. I'm sure this is an upstream bug, but hopefully there is an easy benchmark that can be run now so that gnome-terminal can be improved :-) Thanks, Stu. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Kernel: Linux 2.6.14.5 Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_GB.UTF-8) Versions of packages gnome-terminal depends on: ii gnome-control-center 1:2.10.2-1 utilities to configure the GNOME d ii gnome-terminal-data 2.12.0-2 Data files for the GNOME terminal ii libatk1.0-0 1.10.3-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit ii libbonobo2-0 2.10.1-1 Bonobo CORBA interfaces library ii libc6 2.3.5-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libgconf2-4 2.12.1-8 GNOME configuration database syste ii libglade2-0 1:2.5.1-2 library to load .glade files at ru ii libglib2.0-0 2.8.5-1 The GLib library of C routines ii libgnome2-0 2.12.0.1-4 The GNOME 2 library - runtime file ii libgnomeui-0 2.12.0-2 The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf ii libgtk2.0-0 2.8.10-1 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii liborbit2 1:2.12.4-1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB ii libpango1.0-0 1.10.2-1 Layout and rendering of internatio ii libpopt0 1.7-5 lib for parsing cmdline parameters ii libstartup-notification0 0.8-1 library for program launch feedbac ii libvte4 1:0.11.15-4 Terminal emulator widget for GTK+ ii libx11-6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-3 X Window System protocol client li ii scrollkeeper 0.3.14-10 A free electronic cataloging syste Versions of packages gnome-terminal recommends: ii yelp 2.12.2-2 Help browser for GNOME 2 -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
